The Visegrad Countries (V4) accession to the European Union in 2004 caused several changes in the field of agriculture. The aim of this paper is to analyse impact of the EU enlargement on V4 agri-food trade, especially considering revealed comparative advantages. Results suggest that intensity of the V4 agri-food trade has increased significantly after the enlargement. There was deterioration i...

The paper investigates price and quality competitiveness and comparative advantage in the new and old European Union Member States’ agri-food trade on the global market between 2000 and 2011. The empirical results show that the new and old Member States have become more similar in successful agri-food competitiveness and comparative advantages. The shares of successful price and successful qual...

Over the last decades, the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the conventional agri-food system has and continues to be contested within both academic and public institutions. For small farms, the unsustainability of the food system is even more serious; farms’ declining share of profit and the cost-price squeeze of commodity production has increased barriers to market access ...

Agri-environment schemes (AESs) have been implemented across EU member states in an attempt to reconcile agricultural production methods with protection of the environment and maintenance of the countryside. To determine the extent to which such policy objectives are being fulfilled, participating countries are obliged to monitor and evaluate the environmental, agricultural and socio-economic i...

1 INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laval, QC, Canada 2 Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada 3 Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, BC, Canada 4 Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc., Ardmore, OK, USA 5 Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, US...

Successful implementation of food supply chains in improving the productivity and operational efficiency by some companies made many other firms and researchers courteous about this fast developing field. For successful strategies, organizations in agri-food business are aiming to bring all its stakeholders in close cooperation. The agri-food supply chain aims at optimal warehousing and locatio...

Today’s society faces many challenges when it comes to food production: producing food sustainably, producing enough of it, distributing food, consuming enough calories, consuming too many calories, consuming culturally-appropriate foods, and reducing the amount of food wasted. The distribution of power within the current mainstream agri-food system is dominated by multinational agri-businesses...

Complete List of Authors: Yan, Honghai; Triticeae Research Institute of Sichuan Agricultural University, Martin, Sara; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Bekele, Wubishet; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Latta, Robert; Dalhousie University, Department of Biology Diederichsen, Axel; Plant Gene Resources of Canada, Agriculture and AgriFood Canada Peng, Yuanying; Triticeae Research Institute of Sic...